Poskod Malaysia

Hello, dear friends:

• Utusan Malaysia argues for the appointment of politicians in GLC leadership, saying that this will ensure that the government-linked companies stay true to their cause: helping Bumis. (The Malaysian Insider)
• The UMNO paper defends the Tan Sri Mohd Isa Samad’s appointment as FELDA chairman. Isa is widely believed to be corrupt. (Utusan Malaysia)
• Does Malaysian politics require an alpha-male figure? Do we really need things to be solved by dick-waving contests? (Free Malaysia Today)
• Former IGP: Dr M was against 1987’s Ops Lalang! Hard to believe. (Malaysiakini)
• On average, two Malaysians take their own lives every day. (The Star)
• Here are some stats about suicide, worldwide. (ChartsBin)
• Robots will be getting RoboEarth an online service that will allow them to “upload date to when they master a task, and ask for help in carrying out new ones”. Essentially, robots learning from each other. Tomorrow: self-aware AI, and the machine apocalypse. (BBC News)
• A British guy has been banned from having sex by the UK court. The reason: his IQ is too low. He “does not have the capacity to consent”. (The Telegraph)
• Technological religion: the Vatican bans confession via iPhone app. (AFP)
• Yo, peeps: Wolverine, or two Batmen? (BuzzFeed)
• In time for Valentine’s: yes, humans can fall in love with objects. “Consumers became emotionally attached to possessions as real substitutes in what resembled human relationships.” (PhysOrg)
• A collection of book trade labels: stickers that booksellers put on books to identify that said volumes had passed through their store. It’s a disappearing artifact, of course. (Flickr)

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